Audi will allow customers to place a $1,000 refundable deposit to order the company’s E-Tron electric SUV when it is unveiled in September, a tried-and-true strategy for cashing in early on electric car hype.

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First deliveries of the E-Tron, which will debut on September 17 in San Francisco, should start in early 2019. That’s a more typical debut-to-release timeline than the last car to make headlines with a $1,000 deposit program, Tesla’s Model 3.

Audi’s also using a new online portal for the owners to track their E-Tron as it’s built, so impatient owners-to-be can watch their baby luxury electric SUV as it comes together. The so-called “digital ecosystem” will be further detailed at the event in September, but I’d expect it to have a lot more to it than purely reservation tracking.